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Ruminating on Blogging « Paradise Regained

(I searched a bit on the PB to see if this has been discussed before and only found this thread.)

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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago • My Blog: Paradise Regained

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46

I know what you mean about blogging. I started a blog over a year ago with the intention of using it as a place to practice my writing. In a very sort time, it turned from writing about my daily experiences to sharing what God is teaching me, and I quickly learned from the few comments I received that some people were gleaning a lot from it.

As far as the time goes, I simply don't have the time to add to it every day (I spend far too much of my time here with you folks.). Is it wrong? If I am using it to glorify myself, yes. If I am using to minister to others and to glorify God for what He's doing in my life? No, it's not wrong. It's yet one more avenue I have to tell others of the God I love and serve.

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J Baldwin
Keowee Presbyterian Church, PCA
Pickens, SC
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

Check Out My Blog: http://reflectjoy.blogspot.com/

I find it a helpful way to share my thoughts. I blog my sermons as well, and find that a very helpful thing to have my sermons available no matter where I go, as long as there is internet. Plus, it will help greatly with my thesis.

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Rev. Lane Keister
Teaching Elder, PCA, North Dakota (working out of bounds in a CRC and an RCA church)
http://greenbaggins.wordpress.com
http://brahmsgreenglove.blogspot.com
http://accenttranslation.blogspot.com

But if you put your sermons on your blog, how do you know that when you preach at another congregation the members there haven't already read the sermon beforehand?

Hey, no one's caught me using Rev. Lane Keister's sermons yet.

Oops, did I type that out loud? Dang!

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Bob Vigneault (Bawb Vēēn-yo)
I just know there's got to be a pony in here somewhere!

The Heartbeat of Heaven (blog) MySpace (Music), MySpace (Personal)
Member of Christ Presbyterian Church, Janesville, WI OPC www.christ-opc.org

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That generally isn't a problem where I am (in North Dakota!), where few people even have internet, much less are they interested in blogs, etc. Besides, I can often preach a repeat sermon to my own congregation, and the only one who notices is my wife (usually I'll edit it to make it better).

Glad she's still listening to you, Lane.

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HaigLaw, ruling elder
Grace PCA, Shreveport, LA
http://www.xanga.com/HaigLaw

Well now that we know that Lane repeats the same sermons to his congregation (though he neglected to mention the frequency!) and that Bob has been profiting in more ways that one from his sermons . . .

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